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BLONDES  AND  BRUNETS 


Blondes  and  Brunets 

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KATHERINE  M.  H.  BLACKFORD,  M.D. 

Author  of  “  The  Job,  the  Mart,  the  Boss  ” 


ARTHUR  NEWCOMB,  EDITOR 


Fifth  Edition 


NEW  YORK 

THE  REVIEW  OF  REVIEWS  COMPANY 
1916 


Copyright  1916 

By  KATHERINE  M.  H.  BLACKFORD,  M.D. 

New  York 

All  rights  reserved ,  including  that  of  translation  into 
foreign  languages,  including  the  Scandinavian 


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PREFACE 

Dr.  Blackford  has  created  a  science.  She 
has  by  painstaking  labor  over  many  years  de¬ 
veloped  the  power  of  accurately  determining 
the  character  of  a  man  by  taking  account  of 
his  observable  physical  and  mental  qualities, 
and,  later,  of  teaching  other  people  to  do  the 
same. 

It  is  obvious  that  a  student  of  the  now  fa¬ 
mous  Blackford  method  cannot  determine  a 
person’s  character  from  any  one  set  of  quali¬ 
ties.  Frequently,  after  a  given  set  of  quali¬ 
ties  has  made  a  certain  strong  indication  of 
character,  a  second  or  third  set  will  modify 
the  first  deductions. 

Yet  each  deduction  is,  as  far  as  it  goes,  cer¬ 
tain  and  sure.  Of  all  the  sets  of  qualities 
observable  and  useful  in  determining  charac¬ 
ter,  the  color  scheme  of  the  person  observed 
is  perhaps  the  most  fascinating  to  the  layman 
and  most  clearly  and  dramatically  proved  by 
ethnology  and  biology  to  have  just  that  im¬ 
portance  in  character  analysis  that  Dr.  Black¬ 
ford  assigns  to  it. 


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This  little  volume  shows  the  general 
scheme  used  by  Dr.  Blackford  in  using  color 
to  determine  character.  It  is  not  a  text  book, 
— that  belongs  in  the  author’s  extraordinary 
study  course  teaching  vpeople  !in  detail  the 
entire  science,  and  how  to  use  it, — but  it  is 
marvelously  suggestive  and  illuminating.  If 
it  will  only  prove  an  alluring  stepping  stone 
for  the  reader  toward  the  full  comprehension 
and  mastery  of  a  science  as  essential  as  it  is 
new,  the  volume  will  a  thousand  times  repay 
him  or  her  for  the  reading. 

Bear  in  mind  that  whereas  a  certain  degree 
of  blondeness  or  darkness  in  an  individual  is, 
as  this  volume  proves,  an  infallible  indication 
of  character,  as  far  as  it  goes, — no  reader 
must  conclude  that  it  goes  all  the  way. 

“Blondes  are  inconstant,”  you  know,  after 
reading  the  following  pages.  So  they  are  in 
the  sense  that  blondeness  is  an  indication  of 
inconstancy. 

But  remember  that  this  is  a  very  different 
matter  from  seeing  a  blonde  person  and  say¬ 
ing,  “there  goes  an  inconstant  man.” 

Dr.  Blackford  could  tell  whether  the  man 
is  inconstant;  she  can  teach  you  to  tell.  But 
you  have  gone  only  a  very  small  way  on  her 


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exactly  and  scientifically  mapped-out  path 
when  you  have  noted  only  the  one  physical 
characteristic  of  blondeness. 


INTRODUCTION 


All  angels  are  blondes — according  to  artists. 

In  the  paintings  and  pottery  of  ancient 
Egypt,  Greece,  Rome  and  Spain,  divinity, 
royalty,  nobility  and  aristocracy  are  often 
represented  by  white  skin,  blue  eyes  and 
flaxen  hair. 

Poems  and  songs  of  love  in  ancient  and 
modern  tongues  sing  the  charms  of  the  snowy 
neck,  rosy  cheeks,  azure  eyes,  alabaster  brow, 
shell-pink  ears,  golden  hair  and  lily  fingers. 

On  the  stage,  heroes  and  heroines,  the 
good  and  lovely  in  general,  are  usually 
blondes — villains,  criminals  and  slaves  bru¬ 
nets. 

Our  common  speech  is  full  of  such  expres¬ 
sions  as,  “That  man  is  white” — indicating 
nobility  of  character  or  fairness  and  justice; 
“He  treated  me  mighty  white” — with  the 
same  signification.  We  also  speak  of  women 
as  being  “divinely  fair,”  and  blue-eyed  and 
beauty  are  used  in  some  connections  almost 
synonymously. 

Until  very  recently,  most  dolls  had  blue 


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eyes  and  yellow  hair,  even  in  countries  where 
their  little  mothers  were  as  brown  as  berries. 

There  are  other  interesting  and  significant 
evidences  of  an  age-old  feeling  amounting  al¬ 
most  to  instinct  that  there  are  differences  in 
character  between  blondes  and  brunets  as 
marked  as  their  differences  in  color. 

Whenever  I  mention  blondes  and  brunets 
in  public  the  response  is  immediate.  The 
newspapers  frequently  take  up  what  I  say 
and  make  a  sensation  of  it.  More  than  one 
garbled  report  of  a  scientific  statement  has 
been  copied  by  the  press  far  and  wide. 

There  is  no  variable  among  human  beings 
so  striking  as  that  of  color — none  so  easily 
observable — and  none  which  has  made  so 
strong  an  appeal  to  scientific  investigators  as 
well  as  to  popular  imagination. 


CHAPTER  I 

EVOLUTION  OF  WHITE  MEN 

An  inquiry  into  the  biological  cause  of  varia¬ 
tions  in  human  color,  into  the  mental  and  psy¬ 
chological  causes  accompanying  these,  and 
into  the  historical  and  pre-historical  causes 
of  the  attitude  toward  blondes  revealed  in 
art,  in  literature,  in  the  drama,  and  in  popu¬ 
lar  speech  will  aid  us  in  understanding  the 
many  differences  between  blondes  and  bru¬ 
nets. 

PIGMENTATION 

The  immediate  cause  of  the  difference  in 
color  among  human  beings  is  the  relative 
amount  of  pigmentation  in  hair,  skin,  iris  and 
retina. 

Scientists  have  long  been  at  work  striving 
to  discover  the  cause  of  pigmentation,  and 
especially  the  cause  for  variation  in  the 
amount  of  pigmentation. 

In  general,  it  is  wrell  known  that  dark  or 
heavily  pigmented  races  inhabit  the  tropics, 
and  that  lighter  or  less  pigmented  races  in- 


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habit  the  temperate  and  north  temperate 
zones. 

For  a  long  time  scientists  have  worked 
upon  a  theory  that  heavy  pigmentation,  re¬ 
sulting  in  dark  color,  helped  the  inhabitants 
of  hot  countries  to  keep  cool.  This  was  be¬ 
cause  of  the  known  fact  that  dark  bodies 
radiate  heat  more  rapidly  than  light  bodies. 

Of  two  pieces  of  iron  of  the  same  size  and 
shape,  one  black  and  the  other  painted  white, 
and  both  heated  to  the  same  temperature, 
the  black  one  was  thought  to  cool  off  much 
more  quickly  than  the  white  one.  This  is  in 
accordance  with  a  law  of  radiation,  at  one 
time  held,  but  now  discarded  by  scientific 
men. 

A  difficulty  was  met,  however,  when  the 
law  of  absorption  was  taken  into  considera¬ 
tion. 

According  to  this  law,  dark  bodies  absorb 
heat  from  sources  of  higher  temperature  than 
themselves  much  more  readily  than  light 
ones.  If  the  black  iron  and  the  white  iron 
are  both  placed  upon  the  same  stove,  the 
black  one  will  heat  up  much  more  quickly 
than  the  white  one. 

It  is  probable  that  both  of  these  laws  have 


Evolution  of  White  Men  13 

some  effect  in  determining  the  evolution  of 
color. 


NEGROES  AND  ESKIMOS 

It  is  well  known  that  black  people  in  the 
tropics  keep  in  the  shade  as  much  as  possible 
and  are  very  largely  nocturnal  in  their  habits. 
Comparatively  few  are  seen  abroad  or  at 
work  during  the  hours  just  before  or  just 
after  noon. 

Keeping  in  the  darkness  and  shade,  they 
make  the  most  of  such  natural  ability  as  they 
radiate  heat.  By  avoiding  as  far  as  possible 
exposing  themselves  to  the  direct  rays  of  the 
sun,  they  absorb  heat  as  little  as  pos¬ 
sible. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  lighter  colored 
races  in  the  cold  North  could  not  absorb 
much  even  if  they  were  black,  and  their 
slower  rate  of  radiation  enables  them  to  con¬ 
serve  better  the  natural  heat  of  their  bodies. 

Negroes  generally  have  difficulty  in  keep¬ 
ing  warm  in  cold  climates.  They  require 
more  clothing  in  cold  weather  than  whites; 
prefer  to  keep  indoors,  and  their  quarters,  as 
a  general  rule,  are  so  hot  that  they  seem  sti¬ 
fling  to  white  people. 


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But  the  theory  that  these  laws  of  radiation 
and  absorption  explain  everything  about  pig¬ 
mentation  and  that  man’s  color  has  been 
evolved  wholly  for  the  purpose  of  enabling 
him  to  adapt  himself  to  the  degree  of  tem¬ 
perature  of  his  environment  does  not 
satisfy. 

The  Eskimo,  living  in  the  cold  Arctic 
regions,  has  black  hair,  gray  or  brown  eyes, 
and  a  yellow  or  brown  skin. 

Dwellers  on  the  cold  northern  plains  of 
Asia  and  North  America  are  brown  and  yel¬ 
low,  while  certain  tribes  in  the  heavily  for¬ 
ested  but  hot,  moist  mountains  of  Northern 
Africa  are  blonde. 

These  considerations  have  led  to  a  further 
study  of  the  causes  of  pigmentation. 

In  1895,  Josef  Von  Schmaedel  read  a 
paper  before  the  Anthropological  Society  of 
Munich,  announcing  the  theory  that  pigmen¬ 
tation  in  man  was  evolved  for  the  purpose  of 
excluding  actinic  or  short  rays  of  light  which 
destroy  living  protoplasm. 

This  set  Major  Chas.  E.  Woodruff,  A.M., 
M.D.,  Surgeon  U.  S.  Army,  upon  a  systema¬ 
tic  search  for  data  to  prove  or  disprove  Von 
Schmaedel’s  theory. 


Evolution  of  White  Men  15 

THE  VIOLET  RAYS 

In  1905,  Major  Woodruff  published  his 
book,  “The  Effects  of  Tropical  Light  on 
White  Men.”  In  this  fascinating  work,  Ma¬ 
jor  Woodruff  champions  the  theory  of  Von 
Schmaedel  and  gives  a  great  mass  of  data 
gathered  from  many  scientists  as  well  as  the 
results  of  his  own  original  research — all  fa¬ 
vorable  to  the  theory  that  the  shorter  violet 
and  ultraviolet  actinic  rays  of  light  first 
stimulate,  then  exhaust,  and  finally  destroy 
living  protoplasm,  and  that  pigmentation  in 
both  men  and  animals  has  been  evolved  for 
the  purpose  of  excluding  these  actinic  rays 
of  sunlight  from  the  tissues  of  the  body. 

Sunburn,  sunstroke,  and  the  dangerous 
burns  of  the  X-ray,  radium,  and  other  sources 
of  short  rays,  as  well  as  the  popularly  known 
fact  that  direct  sunlight  kills  bacteria,  are  all 
evidences  of  the  destructive  effect  of  actinic 
rays. 

Another  evidence  of  the  relationship  be¬ 
tween  pigmentation  and  sunlight,  rather  than 
sun’s  heat,  is  the  fact  that  albinos — who  are 
unpigmented — are  excessively  sensitive  to 
light,  while  not  any  more  sensitive  to  heat 
than  others  of  the  same  race. 


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WHY  THE  ESKIMO  IS  DARK-SKINNED 

According  to  this  theory,  also,  the  dark 
color  of  the  Eskimo,  the  North  American 
Indian,  and  the  dweller  in  the  northern  part 
of  Asia  is  explained. 

The  Eskimo  requires  his  pigmentation  as 
a  protection  against  the  blinding  glare  of 
snow  and  ice.  The  plains  of  Northern  Asia 
and  North  America,  while  cold,  are  also 
largely  free  from  fog  and  cloud,  so  that  con¬ 
siderable  pigmentation  is  needed  in  these 
parts  of  the  world  as  a  protection  against 
light. 

According  to  Dr.  Carl  Beck,  blondes  are 
far  more  liable  to  burns  and  lesions  by  X- 
rays  than  brunets,  the  extreme  brunet  being 
almost  immune. 

CRADLE  OF  WHITE  RACES 

Still  further  confirmation  of  this  theory  is 
found  in  the  evolution  of  extreme  blondness 
in  Northwestern  Europe,  on  the  plains,  and 
among  the  heavily  forested  mountains  in  the 
neighborhood  of  the  Baltic  Sea. 

This  is  the  cloudiest,  foggiest,  darkest 
region  on  the  face  of  the  earth  and  is  the 
cradle  of  the  Scandinavian  and  Teutonic 


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races,  both  of  which  are  predominantly 
blonde. 

Anthropologists  violently  differ  as  to  the 
place  where  the  white  races  were  evolved. 
Many  of  them,  however,  agree  that  primi¬ 
tive  man  was  black  and  that  blondness  has 
been  evolved  as  the  result  of  either  forced 
or  voluntary  migration  of  the  primitive  bru¬ 
net  to  cold,  dark,  cloudy  Northwestern 
Europe. 

The  climate  of  this  part  of  Europe  is  rig¬ 
orous  and  severe. 

VIGOROUS  TRAITS  EVOLVED  WITH  BLONDENESS 

The  necessities  of  life  in  such  a  climate  are 
more  numerous  and  at  the  same  time  more 
difficult  to  obtain  than  in  a  milder  one.  Man 
requires  more  food,  more  shelter,  more  cloth¬ 
ing,  more  fuel,  than  in  a  warm  climate. 
Whereas  fruits,  vegetables,  fish,  flesh  and 
fowl  are  comparatively  easy  to  secure  in  warm 
latitudes,  they  are  scarce,  difficult  to  secure, 
and  require  much  more  preparation  in  the 
higher  latitudes. 

Under  northern  climatic  conditions,  then, 
only  the  largest,  strongest,  healthiest,  most 
intelligent,  most  hopeful,  most  courageous 


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and  most  aggressive  individuals  would  sur¬ 
vive. 

The  natural  result  would  be  an  evolution  of 
a  race  of  men  and  women  endowed  with  ro¬ 
bust  physical,  mental,  and  psychical  charac¬ 
teristics. 

Since  the  relatively  abundant  pigmentation 
of  the  primitive  first  settler  in  these  dark 
countries  was  not  needed  as  a  protection 
against  light,  there  seems  to  be  much  evi¬ 
dence  that  whiteness  was  gradually  evolved 
along  with  characteristics  just  mentioned. 

THE  WHITE  CONQUERORS 

A  process  of  evolution  therefore  having 
produced  a  vigorous,  aggressive  white  race, 
conquerors  of  a  harsh  and  severe  environ¬ 
ment,  these  qualities  of  the  race  sent  them 
southward,  eastward  and  westward  to  be¬ 
come  the  conquerors  and  rulers  of  dark- 
skinned  races,  less  aggressive,  less  bold,  less 
domineering,  less  vigorous  because  their  more 
kindly  environment  had  not  necessitated  the 
evolution  of  these  rugged  traits. 

There  is  considerable  prehistoric  evidence 
to  indicate  that  a  conquering  race  of  tall, 
vigorous,  fair-haired,  blue-eyed,  white  skinned 


Evolution  of  IVhite  Men 


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men  migrated  in  successive  waves  over  Eu¬ 
rope,  Asia  Minor,  Northern  Africa,  Persia, 
India,  Ceylon,  Java,  and  perhaps  as  far  East 
as  the  Philippine  Islands. 

This  race  of  men  called  themselves  Aryans, 
and  wherever  they  went  forced  their  lan¬ 
guage  upon  the  conquered  dark  races. 

How  long  ago  these  prehistoric  migrations 
of  Aryans  began  is  lost  in  antiquity,  but  there 
are  pictures  in  the  Pyramids  of  Egypt  show¬ 
ing  intruding  “white  men  from  the  North 
with  blue  eyes,”  dating  probably  3,500  to 
4,500  B.  C.  It  is  known  that  there  was  an 
invasion  of  white  men  into  Greece  2,000  to 
1,000  B.  c. 

However  early  this  migration  may  have 
been,  it  was  so  long  ago  that  the  ancient  San¬ 
skrit,  formerly  spoken  and  written  in  India, 
classic  Greek  and  Latin,  as  well  as  ancient 
and  modern  German,  French,  Spanish,  Ital¬ 
ian,  Dutch,  Danish,  Swedish,  Norwegian, 
English,  Gaelic  and  Welsh  languages,  and 
many  dialects  now  spoken  in  India  all  bear 
unmistakable  evidence  of  their  common  origin 
in  the  Aryan  tongue. 

It  is  significant  that  Hellenes,  the  name  by 
which  the  ancient  Greeks  called  themselves; 


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Gaels,  the  name  given  to  themselves  by  the 
ancient  inhabitants  of  Great  Britain  and  Ire¬ 
land;  and  Aryans,  the  general  name  given  to 
themselves  by  the  conquering  races  to  which 
we  have  referred,  all  mean  “ white  men.” 

Some  high  anthropological  authorities  do 
not  accept  the  theory  of  an  Aryan  race.  Some 
assign  the  place  of  its  origin  to  Asia  instead 
of  Europe.  But  the  majority  favor  the  out¬ 
line  I  have  given — and  the  preponderance 
of  evidence  seems  to  be  with  them. 

CHARACTERISTICS  OF  THE  ARYANS 

These  early  white  men  were  tall,  vigorous, 
restless,  courageous,  aggressive  and  brainy, 
but  they  lacked  culture.  7'hey  excelled  in 
warfare,  in  navigation,  in  exploration,  but 
they  were  deficient  in  arts  and  letters. 

Having  conquered  the  brunet  natives  of 
the  various  countries  to  which  they  migrated, 
the  white  men  proved  themselves  to  be  won¬ 
derful  organizers,  creators,  builders,  rulers, 
and  captains  of  industry. 

They  early  adapted  the  culture,  arts  and 
letters  developed  through  long  centuries  of 
patient  plodding  by  the  dark  peoples, 


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among  whom  they  intruded  and  over  whom 
they  ruled. 

They  built  up  wonderful  civilizations, 
great  cities  and  wealthy  and  powerful  na¬ 
tions. 

The  ruins  of  these  Aryan  creations  are 
scattered  through  Java,  Ceylon,  India,  Per¬ 
sia,  Greece,  Macedonia,  Italy  and  Spain. 

ARYAN  CIVILIZATIONS 

We  therefore  have  the  picture  of  Aryan 
civilization  running  back  from  eight  to  ten 
thousand  years,  with  the  ruling  classes,  the 
nobility,  the  aristocracy,  always  tending  to  be 
white,  and  the  peasantry,  the  working  classes, 
the  subordinates  in  the  scheme  of  things,  al¬ 
ways  tending  to  be  dark. 

This  fact  is  reflected  in  the  Aryan  lan¬ 
guages,  in  the  ancient  paintings  and  statuary 
referred  to  at  the  beginning  of  this  book, 
and  in  the  almost  instinctive  glorification  of 
the  blonde  in  art,  in  literature,  on  the  stage, 
and  in  the  vernacular. 

All  occidental  civilization  and  a  great  deal 
of  oriental  civilization  have  been  built  up  and 
ruled  from  the  very  earliest  times  by  white 
men.  In  many  ancient  governments  the  king 


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or  emperor  was  deified,  and  so  we  have  gods 
and  goddesses  and  all  supernatural  beings 
represented  as  blondes. 

DISAPPEARANCE  OF  WHITE  MEN  FROM 
SOUTHERN  CLIMES 

It  is  interesting  to  note  in  this  connection 
that  the  inhabitants  of  modern  Java,  Ceylon, 
India,  Persia,  Syria,  Asia  Minor,  Greece, 
Turkey,  Italy,  Spain  and  France  are  predomi¬ 
nantly  brunet  or  very  dark-skinned  white 
people. 

Many  anthropologists  agree  that  the 
blonde  Aryans  who  built  up  these  old  civiliza¬ 
tions  and  left  their  language  as  a  legacy  have 
either  entirely  died  out,  or  are  disappearing, 
giving  place  to  those  more  heavily  pigmented. 

WHY  EXCESSIVE  LIGHT  EXTERMINATES 
WHITE  PEOPLE 

The  reason  for  this  disappearance  of  the 
tall,  vigorous,  restless  blonde  is  not  so  well 
understood.  It  ought  to  be  clear  to  the 
thoughtful  observer,  however,  that  if  white¬ 
ness  was  evolved  in  cold,  dark,  cloudy  North¬ 
western  Europe,  then  the  extreme  white  Ary¬ 
an  race  was  out  of  its  natural  environment 


Evolution  of  "Vh'tle  Men  23 

in  these  lands  where  there  is  an  excess  of 
light,  against  which  it  had  little  pigmentation 
as  a  protection. 

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  there  is  no 
third  generation  of  white  men  in  India. 

Woodruff  presents  an  abundance  of  evi¬ 
dence  to  prove  that  the  effect  of  an  excess  of 
sunlight,  with  its  destructive  actinic  rays,  is 
first  to  stimulate,  then  exhaust  and  degen¬ 
erate,  and  finally  to- extirpate  the  white  races. 

WHY  EGYPT,  PERSIA  AND  ROME  FELL 

He  assigns  the  degeneracy  and  fall  of  all 
ancient  civilizations  in  hot  countries  to  the 
effects  of  tropical  and  sub-tropical  sunlight 
upon  their  white  rulers. 

Statistics  show  that  blondes  are  becoming 
relatively  less  numerous  than  brunets  in  Eng¬ 
land,  the  United  States,  New  Zealand,  Aus¬ 
tralia  and  South  Africa,  notwithstanding  the 
constant  fresh  migrations  of  blondes  to  these 
countries  from  Northwestern  Europe. 

DESTRUCTION  OF  WHITES  BY  SUNLIGHT 
STILL  GOING  ON 

Statistics  also  show  many  forms  of  physi¬ 
cal,  nervous  and  rriental  degeneracy  of  white 


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people  in  tropical  regions,  of  the  second  or 
third  generations  of  whites  in  sub-tropical  cli¬ 
mates,  and  of  later  generations  of  whites  in 
those  parts  of  the  Temperate  and  North 
Temperate  Zones  where  there  is  an  abun¬ 
dance  of  sunlight. 

All  of  these  facts  are  of  great  scientific 
value  to  the  student  of  variations  in  physique, 
in  appearance  and  in  character  among  human 
beings. 

TWO  IMPORTANT  FACTS  ABOUT  BLONDES 

Two  fundamental  facts  about  whites  stand 
out  from  all  this  mass  of  evidence  and  are 
the  key  by  which  we  may  best  understand 
their  physical,  mental  and  psychical  qualities: 

( 1 )  White  color  was  doubtless  evolved  in 
an  environment  which  permitted  the  survival 
of  those  only  who  were  most  vigorous,  most 
intelligent,  most  aggressive,  most  creative, 
most  active  and  most  capable  of  adapting 
themselves  to  extremes  of  heat  and  cold,  feast 
and  famine,  altitude  and  occupation. 

(2)  In  countries  where  there  is  a  great 
deal  of  light,  whites — and  especially  extreme 
blondes — are  suffering  more  or  less  from  too 
much  stimulation  of  brain  and  nerves,  and 


Evolution  of  White  Men 


25 


oftentimes  from  brain  and  nerve  exhaustion, 
and  consequent  physical,  mental  and  psychi¬ 
cal  degeneracy. 


CHAPTER  II 


EVOLUTION  OF  THE  DARK-SKINNED 
RACES 

In  studying  the  dark-skinned  peoples,  we 
shall  understand  better  their  characteristics 
if  we  remember  that  they  were  evolved — ex¬ 
cept  in  the  cases  of  North  American  Indians, 
Eskimos,  and  Tartars — in  a  warm,  pleasant 
climate  where  their  necessities  are  compara¬ 
tively  few. 

Man  requires  less  food,  less  clothing,  less 
shelter,  less  fuel,  in  a  warm  climate  than  in 
a  cold  one. 

In  addition  to  requiring  less  of  all  these 
things,  the  dark-skinned  man  found  them  all 
easy  to  obtain  from  the  abundance  of  animal 
and  vegetable  life  around  him. 

Primitive  man  in  the  tropics  and  sub¬ 
tropics  found  his  surroundings  comfortable, 
conducive  to  quiet  and  physical  inacitivity. 

Since  there  was  plenty  to  supply  his  few 
wants  close  at  hand,  he  did  not  need  to  take 
to  sea  or  travel  far  by  land. 

Since  the  dark  skinned  man  received  most 


Evolution  of  the  Dark-Skinned  Races  27 

of  his  necessary  warmth  from  outside  sources, 
he  did  not  need  as  much  oxygen  as  the  white, 
who  had  to  breathe  in  great  quantities  of  it 
that  he  might  sustain  internal  oxygenation 
and  thus  produce  heat  for  himself. 

As  a  result  of  the  same  conditions,  all  pro¬ 
cesses  of  nutrition  and  elimination  in  the  yel¬ 
low,  brown  and  black  were  slower  than  these 
processes  in  the  white  man. 

Whereas  the  white  man  was  required  to 
expend  all  of  his  mental  and  physical  energy 
in  active,  aggressive  combat  with  his  harsh 
environment  in  order  to  obtain  the  material 
means  of  life,  the  dark  man  in  a  kindlier  en¬ 
vironment  and  in  the  midst  of  plenty  had 
both  energy  and  time  to  spare. 

As  to  the  North  American  Indian,  Eski¬ 
mo,  and  Tartar,  further  explanation  would 
need  to  be  made. 

They  were  evolved  in  a  cold,  light  climate, 
where  food  was  not  plenty  and  where  ac¬ 
tivity  is  needed.  They  are  therefore  more 
energetic  than  other  dark-skinned  races. 

With  these  scientific  facts  as  to  the  evolu¬ 
tion  of  white  and  dark  races  of  man  in  mind, 
any  thoughtful,  logical  person  should  be  able 
to  determine  accurately  the  physical,  mental 


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and  psychical  differences  between  blondes  and 
brunets.  The  same  differences  in  physique 
and  in  character  that  exist  between  white 
men  and  black  men  exist,  in  proportionate 
degree,  between  blondes  and  brunets,  when 
both  belong  to  the  white  race. 


i 


CHAPTER  III 

CHARACTERISTICS  OF  BLONDES 

Take  the  normal  blonde.  By  the  normal 
blonde  I  mean  a  person  of  white  race,  with 
comparatively  little  pigmentation,  in  normal 
mental  and  physical  condition.  The  lighter 
the  color  of  skin,  eyes,  and  hair,  the  more 
typically  does  he  exhibit  the  characteristics 
I  outline  here.  The  keynote  of  the  physical 
characteristics  of  the  normal  blonde  is  posi¬ 
tiveness.  He  inclines  to  be  tall,  robust,  with 
a  superabundance  of  buoyant,  radiant  health 
and  vigor. 

Since  he  was  evolved  in  a  cold,  dark,  harsh 
environment,  all  of  his  physical  processes  tend 
to  be  rapid  and  active. 

In  order  to  maintain  heat,  it  was  neces¬ 
sary  for  him  to  eat  and  digest  large  quantities 
of  food  and  breathe  in  a  great  deal  of  oxy¬ 
gen. 

In  order  to  maintain  health  and  survive  in 
his  environment  he  needed  a  strong,  reliable 
circulation  and  circulatory  system. 


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With  digestion,  respiration  and  circulation 
positive  and  active,  processes  of  elimination 
needed  to  be  similarly  quick  and  active. 

MUSCULAR  ACTIVITY 

All  of  these  characteristics,  as  well  as  the 
low  temperature  in  which  he  lived,  necessi¬ 
tated  great  muscular  activity;  as  did  also  his 
need  for  food  and  clothing. 

Therefore,  the  normal  blonde  is  character¬ 
ized,  in  every  department  of  his  physical  be¬ 
ing,  by  positiveness,  rapidity,  adaptability, 
energy  and  activity. 

It  is  for  these  reasons  blondes  seldom  suf¬ 
fer  from  chronic  diseases,  except  those  in¬ 
duced  by  the  results  of  living  in  a  climate 
where  there  is  too  much  sunlight.  They  be¬ 
come  ill  quickly,  and  die  or  recover  quickly. 

DEFICIENT  ENDURANCE 

Since  quickness  and  aggressiveness  are 
physical  attributes  of  the  blonde;  since  in  his 
hunting,  his  sailing  and  his  fighting  he  has 
always  been  called  upon  for  quick  explosions 
of  tremendous  energy  followed  by  periods  of 
recuperation,  the  blonde  is  not  particularly 
well  fitted  for  long-sustained  physical  action. 


Characteristics  of  Blondes  31 

He  expends  his  abundant  energy  too  rap¬ 
idly. 

In  athletics,  therefore,  blondes  excel  in  the 
sprints  and  dashes,  in  jumping,  throwing, 
vaulting  and  other  such  contests;  while  the 
brunets  are  better  adapted  to  long  runs, 
wrestling,  prize  fighting  and  other  contests 
where  endurance  is  the  prime  requisite. 

In  general,  however,  most  athletes  are 
blondes,  even  in  contests  requiring  endur¬ 
ance,  because  of  the  natural  activity,  love  of 
conquest,  aggressiveness,  and  combativeness 
of  the  blonde. 

Since  the  early  environment  of  the  blonde 
was  probably  damp  and  rainy,  and  since  his 
mode  of  life  required  both  swimming  and 
wading,  we  find  him,  as  a  rule,  fond  of  the 
water. 

The  majority  of  great  swimmers,  skaters, 
oarsmen  and  yachtsmen  are  blondes. 

The  early  Aryans  were  great  navigators. 
During  the  time  of  the  Aryan  civilization  in 
Greece,  in  Rome,  in  Norseland,  in  Spain,  and 
in  France  these  different  nations  maintained 
their  sea  power.  It  was  when  the  Aryan 
rulers  had  been  eliminated  by  excessive  sun¬ 
light  that  their  sea  power  waned. 


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MENTAL  TRAITS  OF  BLONDES 

The  mental  characteristics  of  the  blonde 
are  the  result  partly  of  the  influence  of  his 
environment  directly  upon  his  mental  nature, 
and  partly  arise  from  his  physical  condition. 

Since  his  brain  was  evolved  in  an  environ¬ 
ment  requiring  the  constant  exercise  of  intel¬ 
ligence,  the  blonde  is  naturally  creative,  re¬ 
sourceful,  inventive,  original.  These  quali¬ 
ties,  it  will  readily  be  seen,  fit  in  perfectly 
with  those  which  are  the  result  of  his  exu¬ 
berant  health. 

The  man  who  has  a  good  digestion,  a  good 
circulation,  who  breathes  deeply,  and  whose 
general  health  is  robust  and  positive  will  nat¬ 
urally  be  optimistic,  hopeful,  exuberant,  eager 
and  fearless.  Such  a  man  is  willing  to  take 
a  chance,  speculative,  impatient,  restless,  al¬ 
ways  sighing  for  new  worlds  to  conquer. 

The  early  struggle  for  existence  of  the 
blonde  races  led  them  far  afield.  They  hunted 
over  miles  of  territory.  They  hunted 
in  the  mountains  and  on  the  plains.  They 
went  to  sea  in  ships.  Their  very  climate  was 
freakish  and  changeable. 

As  a  result  of  these  environmental  influ¬ 
ences  the  blonde  developed  an  eager  and  ac- 


Characteristics  of  Blondes 


33 


five  disposition  and  is  fond  of  change,  loves 
variety,  is  happiest  when  he  has  many  irons 
in  the  fire,  and  easily  turns  his  attention  from 
one  interest  to  another. 

Because  of  these  qualities,  and  because  of 
the  joy  of  conquest  developed  through  ages 
of  triumph  over  unfriendly  environment,  the 
blonde  loves  to  rule.  He  is  inclined  to  be 
domineering.  He  loves  to  handle  and  man¬ 
age  large  affairs  and  come  in  contact  with  life 
at  as  many  points  as  possible. 

Because  of  his  exuberant  health,  his  splen¬ 
did  circulation  and  his  naturally  optimistic, 
hopeful,  courageous  disposition,  the  blonde 
likes  excitement,  crowds,  gaiety.  He  is  a 
good  mixer — makes  acquaintances  readily 
with  all  kinds  of  people.  But,  on  account  of 
his  changeable  nature,  he  is  liable  to  be  fickle. 

Thus  everywhere  blondes  push  into  the 
limelight,  engage  in  politics,  promote  and 
build  up  great  enterprises,  sell,  advertise,  or¬ 
ganize,  colonize,  create,  and  invent. 

It  is  for  this  reason  blondes  are  many  in 
the  ranks  of  royalty,  nobility  and  aristocracy. 
This  has  been  observed  by  many  investiga¬ 
tors.  In  the  Monthly  Reviezv  for  August, 
1901,  Page  93,  Havelock  Ellis  says: 


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HAVELOCK  ELLIS  ON  BLONDES 
“It  is  clear  that  a  high  index  of  pigmenta¬ 
tion,  or  an  excess  of  fairness,  prevails  among 
the  men  of  restless  and  ambitious  tempera¬ 
ment,  the  sanguine,  energetic  men,  the  men 
who  easily  dominate  their  fellows  and  who 
get  on  in  life,  and  the  men  who  recruit  the 
aristocracy  and  who  doubtless  largely  form 
the  plutocracy.  It  is  significant  that  the 
group  of  low-class  men — artisans  and  peas¬ 
ants — and  the  men  of  religion,  whose  mis¬ 
sion  in  life  it  is  to  preach  resignation  to  a 
higher  will,  are  both  notably  of  dark  com¬ 
plexion;  while  the  men  of  action  thus  tend 
to  be  fair,  men  of  thought,  it  seems  to  me, 
show  some  tendency  to  be  dark.” 

DR.  A.  M.  HANSON  ON  BLONDES 
On  pages  95  and  96  he  says: 

“It  so  happens  that  an  interesting  and 
acute  psychological  study  of  the  fair  and  dark 
populations  of  Norway  has  lately  been  made 
by  Dr.  A.  M.  Hanson.  This  investigation 
has  revealed  differences  even  more  marked 
between  the  fair  and  the  dark  than  may  easily 
be  discovered  in  our  own  islands,  and  this  is 
not  surprising,  since  our  racial  elements  have 


Characteristics  of  Blondes 


35 


been  more  thoroughly  mixed.  The  fair  popu¬ 
lation,  he  tells  us,  is  made  up  of  the  born 
aristocrats,  active,  outspoken,  progressive, 
with  a  passion  for  freedom  and  independence, 
caring  nothing  for  equality;  the  dark  popu¬ 
lation  is  reserved  and  suspicious,  very  con¬ 
servative,  lacking  in  initiative,  caring  little 
for  freedom,  but  with  a  passion  for  equality. 
The  fair  people  are  warlike,  quarrelsome 
when  drunk,  and  furnish,  in  proportion  to 
numbers,  three  times  as  many  men  for  the 
volunteer  forces  as  the  dark  people;  the  lat¬ 
ter,  though  brave  sailors,  abhor  war,  and  are 
very  religious,  subscribing  to  foreign  missions 
nearly  three  times  as  much  per  head  as  is  fur¬ 
nished  by  fair  people,  who  are  inclined  to  be 
irreligious.  The  fair  people  value  money 
and  all  that  money  can  buy,  while  the  dark 
people  are  indifferent  to  money.  The  reality 
of  mental  distinction  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  a  map  of  the  proportion  of  conservative 
voters  in  elections  to  the  Storthing  exactly 
corresponds  to  an  anthropological  map  of  the 
country,  the  conservative  majority  being 
found  in  the  dark  and  broad-headed  districts. 
While,  however,  the  fair  population  is  the 
most  irreligious  and  progressive,  the  dark 


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population  is  by  no  means  behind  in  the  pro¬ 
duction  of  intellect,  and  the  region  it  inhabits 
has  produced  many  eminent  men.” 

In  the  same  article,  on  page  97,  he  says: 

“It  may  also  be  marked  that  the  charac¬ 
teristics  of  the  fair  population  are  especially 
masculine  qualities,  while  the  characteristics 
of  the  dark  population  are  more  peculiarly 
feminine  qualities;  it  so  happens  also  that 
women,  as  is  now  beginning  to  be  generally 
recognized  by  anthropologists,  tend  to  be 
somewhat  darker  than  men.” 

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  WOODRUFF  ON 
BLONDES 

On  page  142,  “The  Effect  of  Tropical 
Light  on  White  Men,”  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Woodruff  quotes  Ellis: 

“  ‘The  fair  man  tends  to  be  bold,  energetic, 
restless,  and  domineering,  not  because  he  is 
fair,  but  because  he  belongs  to  an  aboriginal 
fair  stock  of  people  who  possess  these  quali¬ 
ties;  while  the  dark  man  tends  to  be  resigned 
and  religious  and  imitative,  yet  highly  intelli¬ 
gent,  not  because  he  is  dark,  but  because  he 
belongs  to  a  dark  stock  possessing  these  char¬ 
acteristics. 


Characteristics  of  Blondes  37 

“  ‘While,  however,  the  fair  population  is 
the  most  irreligious  and  progressive,  the  dark 
population  is  by  no  means  behind  in  the  pro¬ 
duction  of  intellect.’  ” 


CHAPTER  IV 

FAULTS  AND  WEAKNESSES  OF  BLONDES 

The  faults  and  weaknesses  of  the  blonde 
are  exactly  such  as  might  be  expected. 

Since  his  health  and  vigor  are  so  positive, 
and  since  he  lacks  in  fear  and  therefore  in 
caution,  he  is  inclined  to  overtax  himself,  to 
attempt  too  much. 

This  applies  also  to  his  undertakings.  His 
love  of  the  game,  his  willingness  to  take  a 
chance,  his  very  optimism  and  hopefulness 
all  tend  to  lead  him  into  foolhardy  daring. 
He  is  a  natural-born  speculator  and  gambler. 

FICKLENESS 

Owing  to  his  restless,  active,  variety-loving 
nature,  the  blonde  is  inclined  to  be  change¬ 
able,  fickle,  scattering  and  irresponsible.  His 
optimism  and  hopefulness  make  him  all  the 
more  liable  to  these  weaknesses.  He  is  al¬ 
ways  expecting  greater  and  better  things  just 
beyond  or  in  another  field  of  activity. 

Since  he  likes  to  deal  with  large  affairs,  to 
organize  and  to  create,  the  blonde  is  inclined 
to  be  impatient  of  detail,  and  therefore  when 
detail  is  entrusted  to  him  to  neglect  it  or  rush 


Faults  and  IV eaknesses  of  Blondes  39 

through  it  in  a  slovenly,  haphazard  manner. 

On  account  of  his  optimism,  eagerness  and 
aggressiveness,  the  blonde  is  liable  to  be  im¬ 
pulsive  and  erratic,  and  therefore  undepend¬ 
able. 

The  domineering  qualities  of  the  blonde 
are  liable  to  excess,  and  it  is  by  no  means  un¬ 
common  to  find  blondes  in  executive  positions 
who  are  merciless  drivers  of  men. 

DRUNKENNESS 

It  is  notorious  that  drunkenness  is  preva¬ 
lent  in  England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  America, 
Scandinavia  and  Russia,  which  are  inhabited 
by  blondes,  and  where  whiskey,  alcohol, 
brandy  and  vodka — the  stronger  liquors — 
are  drunk. 

The  darker  peoples  of  France,  Italy  and 
Spain  consume  more  liquor  per  capita  than 
the  blondes  of  these  northern  countries,  but 
they  drink  it  in  the  form  of  lighter  wines  and 
take  it  constantly,  so  that  there  is  very  little 
drunkenness  among  them. 

In  other  words,  the  blonde  inclines  to  take 
strong  liquor  in  large  quantities  at  a  time, 
thus  causing  drunkenness;  the  brunet  to  take 
light  liquor  in  small  quantities  at  a  time  but 
more  frequently,  thus  escaping  drunkenness. 


CHAPTER  V 


EFFECT  OF  EXCESSIVE  LIGHT  ON 
BLONDES 

As  I  have  already  pointed  out,  the  blonde 
is  out  of  his  true  environment  in  countries 
where  there  is  an  excess  of  sunlight,  and  suf¬ 
fers  in  many  ways  thereby. 

The  first  effect  of  too  much  light  upon  the 
blonde  is  stimulation;  and  we  therefore  find 
many  blondes  in  England,  America,  Aus¬ 
tralia,  New  Zealand,  South  Africa,  and  in 
all  tropical  countries  manifesting  an  extreme 
of  all  blonde  qualities,  both  physical  and 
mental. 

As  the  result  of  this  kind  of  stimulation, 
they  are  more  changeable,  more  fickle,  more 
erratic,  more  irresponsible,  more  impulsive, 
more  inclined  to  drunkenness  and  excesses  of 
every  kind  than  the  normal  blonde. 

After  a  few  generations  of  exposure  to 
excessive  sunlight  blonde  stocks  tend  to  ex¬ 
haustion  and  degeneration,  which  makes 
them  a  prey  to  crime,  poverty,  drunkenness, 
insanity,  sterility,  tuberculosis,  rheumatism, 
nervous  disease,  perversion  and  many  other 


Effect  of  Excessive  Light  on  Blondes  41 

troubles  resulting  from  exhaustion  of  ner¬ 
vous  energy  and  vital  forces. 

THE  DEGENERATE  BLONDE 

The  abnormal,  degenerate  blonde,  instead 
of  being  a  picture  of  exuberant  health  and 
vigor  like  the  normal  blonde,  is  pasty  of  com¬ 
plexion,  with  dull,  spiritless  eyes,  cold, 
clammy  hands  and  feet,  disordered  nervous 
system  and  weak  digestion. 

Instead  of  being  optimistic,  hopeful  and 
courageous,  he  is  often  pessimistic,  cynical, 
and  full  of  nervous  fears. 

Feeling  the  exhaustion  of  his  nervous 
force,  he  is  liable  to  form  a  drug  habit. 

Another  result  of  the  destructive  power 
of  light  in  the  blonde  is  excessive  obesity. 

Physicians  tell  us  that  obesity  is  the  result 
of  nervous  disorder,  and  Major  Woodruff 
points  out  that  this  nervous  disorder  in  the 
blonde  is  often  due  to  excessive  light. 

The  too  stout  blonde  is  often  nervous,  ir¬ 
ritable,  lazy,  careless  and  slovenly. 

BLONDES  SHOULD  PROTECT  THEMSELVES 
FROM  TOO  MUCH  LIGHT 

Normal  blondes  suffer  from  headaches, 


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neurasthenia  and  even  fatal  sunstroke  if  ex¬ 
posed  to  too  much  sunlight. 

A  word  to  the  wise  should  be  sufficient. 

If  men  and  women  of  light  complexion, 
lacking  the  protection  afforded  by  pigmenta¬ 
tion,  would  profit  by  the  example  of  the  na¬ 
tives  of  the  tropics,  sub-tropics  and  other 
light  countries  and  take  every  possible  pre¬ 
caution  against  the  destructive  effects  of  ultra¬ 
violet  rays,  they  would  save  themselves  from 
much  serious  trouble. 

The  white  clothing  worn  by  white  people 
in  the  tropics  and  in  the  summer  time  is  good 
in  that  it  reflects  rather  than  absorbs  heat 
and  light;  but  it  is  much  too  permeable  by 
short  rays.  I  have  seen  white  people  in  In¬ 
dia  tanned  and  freckled  all  over  their  bodies, 
and  even  sunburned,  by  short  rays  penetrating 
their  white  garments. 

The  ordinary  white  straw  hat  worn  by  men 
and  women  in  the  summer  time  is  also  far  too 
transparent. 

The  best  means  of  protection  for  blondes 
are  broad,  low  verandas  around  their  houses, 
heavy,  opaque  shades  at  the  windows,  and 
dark  headdress  and  clothing  except  in  direct 
sunlight. 


Effect  of  Excessive  Light  on  Blondes  43 

In  direct  sunlight  the  best  results  are  ob¬ 
tained  by  white  outer  clothing  and  dark, 
opaque  underclothing.  If  a  white  hat  or 
helmet  is  worn,  it  should  be  lined  with  tin- 
foil  or  some  other  opaque  material  that  will 
shut  out  the  ultra-violet  rays. 

The  direct  light  of  the  tropical  sun  shining 
down  upon  the  bare  head  of  a  blonde  for 
even  a  few  minutes  has  more  than  once 
proved  fatal. 

In  this  connection,  it  is  well  to  bear  in  mind 
that  any  white  person,  that  is,  person  belong¬ 
ing  to  a  white  race,  is  a  blonde  compared  to 
Negroes,  Indians,  Malays,  Chinese  and  Jap¬ 
anese  who  inhabit  the  tropical,  sub-tropical 
and  most  of  the  temperate  zones. 

White  people  living  in  the  southern  part 
of  the  North  Temperate  Zone  or  the  north¬ 
ern  part  of  the  South  Temperate  Zone  need 
to  take  a  great  many  of  the  precautions  I 
have  mentioned.  History  and  physiology 
agree  that  they  cannot  become  acclimated  in 
the  sense  that  they  can  be  indifferent  to  the 
fact  that  they  are  not  living  in  the  midst  of 
the  environment  for  which  their  type  was 
evolved. 

Nebraska,  Kansas,  Oklahoma,  Texas,  New 


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Mexico,  Arizona,  Nevada  and  California  are 
now  rapidly  being  populated  by  white  people. 

Studies  I  have  made  in  these  states  indi¬ 
cate  that  already  excessive  light  is  having  its 
destructive  effect.  I  have  seen  many,  many 
cases  of  nervous  exhaustion  throughout  all 
this  southwest. 

FALLACY  OF  SUNLIGHT  “CURES” 

There  has  been  so  much  of  fallacy  taught 
in  regard  to  the  curative  effect  of  sunlight 
that  thousands  of  invalids  go  to  this  part  of 
the  country  for  their  health  and  for  a  time 
at  least  expose  themselves,  “soaking  in  the 
sunlight,”  as  they  call  it. 

The  effect  of  sunlight  being  at  first  to 
stimulate,  they  are  easily  persuaded  to  imag¬ 
ine  that  they  are  being  cured.  But  in  how 
many  cases  disappointment  has  followed  this 
early  optimism  the  baggage  men  on  east- 
bound  trains  know  only  too  well. 

EXPERIENCE  OF  A  BLONDE  IN  ARIZONA 

During  a  visit  to  Seattle  I  met  a  gentleman 
of  fine  blonde  type  who  told  me  this  story: 

“I  have  been  a  mining  engineer  for  several 
years.  I  began  the  practice  of  my  profession 


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in  the  state  of  Washington  and  made  rapid 
progress. 

“Three  years  ago  my  employers  sent  me 
to  Arizona. 

“When  I  first  reached  there  I  was  de¬ 
lighted  with  the  climate — felt  better  than 
ever  I  had  in  my  life.  I  sent  for  my  wife  and 
children  and  for  my  wife’s  mother,  and  was 
enthusiastically  declaring,  ‘Arizona  for  me.’ 

“Within  a  very  few  months,  however,  I 
began  to  suffer  from  nervous  exhaustion. 
This  grew  worse  and  worse,  until  I  was  con¬ 
fined  to  my  bed  with  nervous  prostration, 
which  was  generally  supposed  to  be  caused 
by  over-work. 

“I  continued  to  grow  worse,  until  I  was 
practically  insane,  and  my  physician  told  my 
family  that  I  could  not  recover. 

“Suddenly  one  day,  in  my  semi-delirium,  I 
was  struck  with  the  notion  that  if  I  could 
only  get  away  from  that  awful  glare  and  dry¬ 
ness  back  to  the  Northwest,  where  there  were 
soothing  fog  and  rain,  I  would  get  well.  I 
was  obsessed  with  the  idea  that  if  I  could 
only  lie  out  where  it  would  rain  in  my  face  I 
would  be  all  right. 

“When  I  talked  to  my  wife  and  mother- 


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in-law  about  it,  they  thought  it  was  merely 
delirium.  But  I  kept  pleading  with  them  to 
take  me  back  where  I  could  feel  the  rain  in 
my  face,  until  the  doctor  told  them  they 
might  as  well  chance  it  as  I  would  die  where 
I  was  anyhow. 

“They  brought  me  back  to  Seattle,  and 
for  weeks  I  lay  outdoors,  soaked  by  the  rain. 
When  I  felt  the  rain  on  my  face  I  knew  im¬ 
mediately  that  I  was  going  to  get  well.  I 
am  still  suffering  from  nervous  exhaustion, 
but  1  am  getting  better  all  the  time.” 

I  know  a  family  of  four  girls,  all  of  whom 
suffered  terribly  from  nervous  exhaustion  in 
Southern  California,  one  of  them  nearly  dy¬ 
ing  in  convulsions.  They  have  all  recovered 
since  removing  to  a  cooler  and  cloudier  cli¬ 
mate. 

A  friend  of  mine  went  without  his  hat  for 
several  summers  for  the  sake,  as  he  thought, 
of  his  health.  He  became  a  sufferer  from 
chronic  headache,  which  disappeared  only 
when  he  learned  its  cause  and  protected  his 
brain  from  the  ultraviolet  rays  of  the  sun. 


CHAPTER  VI 

CHARACTERISTICS  OF  BRUNETS 

Just  as  the  normal  blonde  is  physically  and 
mentally  consistent  with  what  might  be  ex¬ 
pected  of  one  of  his  evolution  and  history, 
so  is  the  normal  brunet. 

By  the  normal  brunet  I  mean  a  person  in 
normal  physical  and  mental  condition,  with 
dark  skin,  eyes,  and  hair.  Irrespective  of 
race,  the  more  pigmentation  in  skin,  eyes, 
and  hair,  the  more  typically  will  the  person 
exhibit  these  characteristics. 

Since  the  brunet  was  evolved  in  a  kindlier 
climate  than  the  blonde,  less  physical  and 
mental  positiveness  was  required  of  him  and 
he  has  been  able  to  survive  without  the  ex¬ 
uberant  health,  vigor,  intelligence,  resource¬ 
fulness  and  aggressiveness  required  by  the 
blonde. 

SLOWNESS,  ENDURANCE,  SMALLER  SIZE 

His  respiration,  digestion,  circulation  and 
elimination  are  all  slower  and  more  moderate 
than  in  the  blonde. 


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Since  size  has  not  been  necessary  for  his 
survival,  he  does  not  incline  to  be  so  large 
as  the  blonde;  nor  is  he  so  active,  so  quick, 
or  in  any  way  physically  so  positive. 

The  brunet  requires  less  food,  breathes 
less  oxygen  than  the  blonde. 

Since  all  of  the  physical  processes  of  the 
brunet  are  slower,  he  expends  his  energy  less 
rapidly,  and  is  therefore  more  enduring.  He 
does  not  become  ill  so  quickly,  but  is  more 
subject  to  chronic  diseases. 

Because  his  environment  has  not  required 
it,  and  because  of  his  negative  physical  na¬ 
ture,  the  brunet  is  not  so  bold,  not  so  aggres¬ 
sive,  not  so  recklessly  indifferent  to  conse¬ 
quences  as  the  blonde. 

CONSTANCY 

For  these  reasons,  and  because  his  mode 
of  life  as  well  as  his  climate  has  tended  to 
sameness,  the  brunet  is  more  conservative, 
more  constant  than  the  blonde.  He  is  in¬ 
clined  to  resent,  rather  than  seek,  change  and 
multiplicity  of  interests.  He  is  therefore  ca¬ 
pable  of  greater  concentration,  perseverance, 
and  painstaking  care. 

In  keeping  with  all  of  these  qualities,  the 


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brunet  does  not  seek  the  limelight,  the  crowds, 
dominating  position  and  excitement,  but  pre¬ 
fers  a  few  friends  well  beloved,  a  quiet  home, 
the  affection  of  his  family  and  pets,  and  an 
opportunity  to  enjoy  the  beauties  of  nature. 

Because  the  brunet  has  not  been  compelled 
to  give  all  of  his  time  and  energy  to  a  strug¬ 
gle  for  life  against  harsh  material  cond^ions, 
he  has  evolved  a  tendency  to  introspection,  to 
the  development  of  science,  philosophy,  re¬ 
ligions,  mysteries  and  other  products  of  meta¬ 
physical  and  spiritual  activities. 

It  is  significant  that  Christianity,  Budd¬ 
hism,  Confucianism,  and  Mohammedanism 
— the  four  principal  religions  of  the  world — 
have  their  origin  and  their  most  devoted  ad¬ 
herents  among  brunet  people. 

It  is  also  significant  that  occultism,  theos¬ 
ophy,  New  Thought  and  other  systems  of 
philosophy  which  deal  chiefly  with  the  unseen 
spiritual  world  should  have  their  origin  and 
most  of  their  adherents  among  brunet  peo¬ 
ples. 

The  difference  between  the  Orient  and  the 
Occident  is  very  largely  a  difference  between 
blondes  and  brunets. 

It  is  typical  of  the  oriental  brunet  that  he 


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should  incline  to  mysticism,  occultism,  psy¬ 
chism,  meditation,  self-denial  and  non-resis¬ 
tance,  living  on  a  meager  diet  and  rather  in¬ 
different  to  material  things. 

It  is  also  characteristic  of  the  occidental 
blonde  that  he  should  be  materialistic,  com¬ 
mercial,  scientific,  manufacturing,  an  organ¬ 
izer  of  trusts  and  combinations,  a  builder  of 
railroad^  and  empires,  interested  chiefly  in 
the  things  he  can  see,  hear,  smell,  taste,  and 
feel,  and  giving  the  unseen  world  but  secon¬ 
dary  consideration. 

PATIENCE  AND  SUBMISSION 

The  brunet,  having  time  at  his  disposal, 
has  evolved  patience,  and  with  it  a  disposi¬ 
tion  for  detail,  for  minute  specialization. 

Not  having  a  genius  for  organization  and 
government,  he  is  usually  perfectly  willing 
to  permit  the  domineering  blonde  to  take  this 
burden  off  his  hands. 

To-day,  wherever  there  is  stable  govern¬ 
ment,  it  is  either  in  the  hands  or  under  the 
influence  of  blondes — white  men. 

Japan  and  China  have  advanced  rapidly 
because  their  brunet  titulary  rulers  have  suffi¬ 
cient  intelligence  to  call  in  blonde  counselors, 


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and  to  learn  from  the  methods  of  blonde  gov¬ 
ernments. 

India  is  ruled  by  blonde  England,  as  is 
Egypt. . 

Mexico  and  some  of  the  South  and  Cen¬ 
tral  American  republics  achieved  whatever 
measure  of  stability  they  had  under  the  rule 
of  blonde  Goths  and  descendants  of  Goths 
from  Spain.  Now  that  these  white  strains 
have  been  killed  by  excessive  sunlight,  some 
have  become  so  unstable  that  some  kind  of 
white  protectorate  seems  necessary. 

BLONDE  AND  BRUNET  CRIMINALS 

Prison  statistics  show  that  the  blonde  is 
most  frequently  guilty  of  crimes  of  passion 
and  impulse,  crimes  arising  from  his  gam¬ 
bling  propensities  and  ill-considered  promo¬ 
tion  schemes;  while  the  brunet  is  more  likely 
to  commit  crimes  of  deliberation,  specializa¬ 
tion,  detail,  such  as  murder,  counterfeiting, 
forgeries,  conspiracy,  etc. 

Because  the  blonde  is  healthy,  optimistic, 
and  naturally  good-humored,  he  eliminates 
anger,  hatred,  melancholy,  discouragement 
and  all  other  negative  feelings  from  his  mind 
as  easily  as  he  eliminates  waste  products  from 
his  body. 


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Because  he  is  naturally  slow,  cautious,  con¬ 
servative  and  inclined  to  be  serious  and 
thoughtful,  the  brunet  is  far  more  liable  to 
harbor  resentment,  to  cherish  a  grudge,  to 
plan  revenge,  to  see  the  dark  side  of  life,  and 
often  to  be  melancholy  and  pessimistic. 

The  same  qualities  that  cause  the  blonde  to 
be  cheerful  and  optimistic  when  things  go 
wrong  give  him  a  tendency  to  permit  things, 
if  they  seem  trifling  to  him,  to  go  wrong. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  same  qualities  that 
cause  the  brunet  to  be  careful  and  painstaking 
with  minute  details  also  incline  him  to  worry 
and  grow  despondent  when  trouble  comes. 

LAW  OF  COLOR 

In  brief,  always  and  everywhere,  the  nor¬ 
mal  blonde  has  positive)  dynamic,  driving, 
aggressive,  domineering,  impatient,  active, 
quick,  hopeful,  speculative,  changeable  and 
variety-loving  characteristics ;  while  the  nor¬ 
mal  brunet  has  negative,  static,  conservative, 
imitative,  submissive,  cautious,  painstaking, 
patient,  plodding,  slow,  deliberate,  serious, 
thoughtful,  specializing  characteristics. 

This  is  the  law  of  color  in  human  analysis. 

In  order  that  you  may  compare  these  char¬ 
acteristics,  I  have  prepared  a  chart  of  them: 


Law  of  Color 


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Physical. . . 


Intellectual 


Psychical. . 


Blonde 

Brunet 

Tall 

Short 

Positive 

Negative 

Vigorous 

Skillful 

Energetic 

Enduring 

Quick 

Slow 

Positive  Respiration 

Negative  Respiration 

Positive  Circulation 

Negative  Circulation 

Positive  Nutrition 

Negative  Nutrition 

Quick  Elimination 

Slow  Elimination 

Robust  Health 

Moderate  Health 

Acute  Disease 

Chronic  Disease 

Loves  Cold 

Loves  Warmth 

Loves  Water 

Loves  Land 

Loves  Activity 

Loves  Comfort 

Bold 

Cautious 

Creative 

Imitative 

Inventive 

Plodding 

Organizing 

Administering 

Generalizing 

Specializing 

Versatile 

Intense 

Planning 

Fond  of  Detail 

Material 

Spiritual 

Imaginative 

Meditative 

Optimistic 

Pessimistic 

Hopeful 

Apprehensive 

Speculative 

Conservative 

Domineering 

Submissive 

Changeable  * 

Constant 

Unstable 

Dependable 

Quick  to  Anger 

Slow  to  Anger 

Quick  to  Recover 

Slow  to  Recover 

Resilient 

Equable 

Impatient 

Patient 

Social 

Adhesive 

Aggressive 

Persistent 

Loves  Crowds 

Loves  Nature 

Loves  Applause 

Desires  Affection 

Careless 

Careful 

Responsive 

Unresponsive 

Cold 

Affectionate 

Forgiving 

Vengeful 

Mild 

Intense 

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I  have  been  aslced,  again  and  again, 
whether  I  consider  blondes  or  brunets  the 
more  desirable.  I  have  been  reported,  by 
some  newspapers,  as  favoring  blondes — by 
others  as  favoring  brunets.  It  ought  to  be 
clear  that  neither  color  is  “better”  than  the 
other.  Let  nothing  appearing  in  this  book 
be  taken  to  mean  that  either  is  the  superior 
of  the  other.  Each  is  superior,  however,  in 
his  own  function. 


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